An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

This Silicon Valley-backed venture is unraveling the mangled remains of scrolls ruined by the 79 C.E. eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii ...

AI and advanced X-ray imaging have decoded the first sealed Herculaneum scroll, opening the door to reading hundreds of ancient texts preserved for nearly 2,000 years.

Researchers used AI to reveal the writing on scrolls damaged during the ancient disaster at Pompeii ...

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., it blanketed the surrounding area with hot gases and volcanic mud, famously ...

A set of ancient texts burned by the volcanic eruption on Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. have been deciphered thanks to a team of researchers using AI. The nearly 2,000-year-old texts were unreadable after ...

A group of archaeologists, led by researchers from the University of Tokyo, announce the discovery of a part of a Roman villa built before the middle of the first century. This villa, near the town of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As ash and lava spewed out of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D., everything stopped for people in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The ...

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Three researchers on Monday won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The Herculaneum papyri consist ...

A cramped service room unearthed near Pompeii's Civita Giuliana villa offers a rare glimpse into the lives of enslaved people ...

Researchers unearthed everyday objects like grain grinders, an oven and some 200 ostraca—ancient receipts and notes written ...